Background

This document presents the results of GAO’s survey of major defense contractor ethics
programs. To obtain information on contractors’ ethics programs, we developed a Web-based survey.
We sent the survey to major
defense contractors, defined as any company that was awarded DOD contracts in fiscal year
2006 totaling more than $500 million. Originally, we emailed 59 contractors but later
determined that two should have been excluded because they were owned by foreign governments,
so 57 were included in our review; we received completed surveys from all 57. The
survey was activated on September 9, 2008 and closed on March 13, 2009. In this
document, we show the aggregate survey results. We do not include responses
for all survey questions. For example, we do not report responses for questions
about demographics, open-ended questions, or questions with high non-response rates.
A more detailed discussion of our scope and methodology and of our survey results
is contained in our report entitled, "Defense Contracting Integrity: Opportunities Exist to Improve DOD's Oversight of Contractor Ethics
Programs",
GAO-09-591.
We conducted our survey work from September 9, 2008 to March 13, 2009 in accordance
with generally accepted government auditing standards.

How to View The Surveys

Click on the Table of Contents link located in the lower right of this
screen. To read to the bottom of the screen, you may need to use your scroll
bar on the right side of this screen.

The first screen in the survey is an introduction and general
information that was sent to and viewed by recipients of the survey. There
are no survey results to view on this screen. This screen is for information
only and you may by-pass it by clicking on Next located at the bottom of the
screen in the lower right.

The survey may have links to allow respondents to bypass
inapplicable questions (skip patterns). While these were active
links during the data collection period, they have now been
disabled.

When a respondent wrote a narrative response to a question, we sometimes present
the percent of respondents making a comment.

How to View the Responses for Each Question

To view the responses to each question, click on the question number
(Links to survey questions will look like this:
1., etc.).

After viewing the responses to each question, click on the "x" in
the upper right corner of your screen to close that window and return to the questionnaire.

How to Return to a Page That You Previously Visited

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the lower right corner of the screen.

Click the Next button to advance to the next screen.

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Contact Information?

If you have questions concerning these data, please contact
John Needham

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